Jill E. Sherman, M.P.H.
Research Associate Telephone: 705-675-1151 ext. 4359
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Jill joined CRaNHR in January 2008. She has a Master of Public Health degree from Tulane University, and is a doctoral candidate in Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include geographies of health and health services, and the sociocultural dimensions of health and wellbeing. Jill has experience with a broad array of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, as well as geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial analysis.
After working for several years in the international arena on USAID- and UNFPA-sponsored reproductive health communication projects, Jill returned to the US and began working on domestic rural health and development projects. She began as a research assistant on the AHRQ-sponsored Mountain Healthcare Accessibility Project at UNC, which examined physical access to healthcare services by degree of rurality for the rural mountain region of western North Carolina. Prior to joining CRaNHR, Jill worked for the National Center for Frontier Communities (Ojo Sarco, New Mexico) as a researcher on a variety of projects, with the majority under contract to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Rural Health Policy. She has also served as a GIS consultant to international health NGOs.
